The Top 25 List of Blogs is becoming a trademark around here. We have already created the Top 25 Blogs About Blogging and the Top 25 SEO Blogs. Now it is time to cover the web design niche.
The Original 25
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| 1 | A List Apart | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 38 |
| 2 | Smashing Magazine | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 3 | 456 Berea Street | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 33 |
| 4 | Meyer Web | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 31 |
| 5 | Simple Bits | 7 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 30 |
| 6 | Pearsonified | 7 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 30 |
| 7 | Tutorial Blog | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 28 |
| 8 | CSS Beauty | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 27 |
| 9 | Snook.ca | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 |
| 10 | Bartelme Design | 7 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 26 |
| 11 | The Man in Blue | 7 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 25 |
| 12 | Andy Budd | 8 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 25 |
| 13 | Particle Tree | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 25 |
| 14 | Warpspire | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 24 |
| 15 | Brian Gardner | 6 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 24 |
| 16 | Sitepoint Design Blog | 6 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 24 |
| 17 | The Undersigned | 7 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| 18 | Bitt Box | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 23 |
| 19 | Fadtastic | 5 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 23 |
| 20 | Colour Lovers | 0 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 14 |
| 21 | David Airey | 4 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 22 |
| 22 | Design Meltdown | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 22 |
| 23 | Clagnut | 7 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 21 |
| 24 | Dev Lounge | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 |
| 25 | Smiley Cat | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
Other Notable Sites / Blogs
I have a lot of fun compiling these lists because it allows me to discover a bunch of new blogs, most of them with excellent content. It is also interesting to see how the different blogs on a specific niche perform under the parameters. Once again we based the analysis on Google’s Pagerank, Alexa rank, Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. The details about the algorithm can be found below the table.
Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of web design related content.
Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.
Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e., 1-100, 100-200, 200-400,400-600) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
About Mark
Mark is an digital entrepreneur from New York City who recently acquired DBT. He started his ventures buying growing then selling several businesses and content blogs on Flippa. A perfect night for him constitutes pizza, wine, slow jazz and WordPress! He's an SEO expert and a growth strategist. When he's not working on his businesses he enjoys sharing his learned lessons with the DBT community.
Thanks For the list sir.
Good list of the top web design blogs. Agree with PelFusion though that SmashingMagazine should be the top spot now. There are definitely a lot of new web design blogs that have come out since that are good reads. One site that I’ve found that lists a bunch of these and their most recent posts is http://uitop.com.
Was looking for some really solid advice on SEO and this site turned with more than what I could ask for! Daily Blog Tips is one of the MOST useful site tip blogs ever! Thanks to the team behind it!
I love that so many of the top web design sites are creative and have interesting names: Smiley Cat, Simple Bits.
Really useful lists. Thank you. In order to have a successful blog we must always take care of your website design and its components. These blogs are giving out for sure a lot of useful tips. Thanks!
There were a few new blogs I hadn’t heard of… thanks for the information.
Cool – the list is really useful!! Cheers
I am looking for high PR blog site ,its great list for the webmaster.
Those are all good picks and I think its a great idea. Keeping the cycle goign sharing is caring. Good stuff. Give us an idea to do a top pick for some other stuff. Thanks for the read
Great listing of blogs………. I like to include me too… and been a poet i like to give my magic imagination and magic words through my blog….
great post…cool! i see some of the blogs listed above and i enjoy reviewing on it… we will come back often…see yahhh..thanks for the information share…
Lovely with such a list. In order to have a successful blog you must always take care of your website design. These blogs are giving out for sure a lot of useful tips. Thanks!
I have joined the both smashingmagazine and alistapart. I think smashingmagazine is the best blog site and rest of the blogs sites in this list are also good.
Thanks for share this cute post and list of top 25 blogs. I find this page while i am search top web design blogs at Google.
smashingmagazine should be the #1 blog
Great list – should keep me entertained for the rest of the morning!
Ill come across your website and found it more interesting in Web Design. I learn more, thanks for the information you share, ill come back often.
Great Resources. Thanks for sharing.
nice statistics, it is very informative and helpful. An amazing tool for the web designers to update themselves.
Thanks for this contribution. I will pass this link to my newsletter subscribers.
I visited these websites, and they have some nice information, CSS-Discuss Wiki in particular. Im looking forward for some more posts like these.
Great Job! Nice site with helpful list. while surfing to web i come across your website.Thanks for sharing information
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this list is very help ful… really gud list..
pretty great comparison
this comparison will help we people a lot.. really good job..u r dion.. keep it up
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Very nice list of web design blogs, we would learn a lot from this websites, thanks a lot for sharing and compiling this list.
This is a cool list and good one with the rankings, I like how you have them viewed from different resources. I hope to get our blog the same way someday.
Wow!… Great collection.. Its really useful list to designers.
I like the standards you used to determine the top blogs and that you didn’t just put together a random list. I’m working hard to get my web design blog up at the top!